New England Chit Chat

[chaoscentral]

i was under the car last night, not crusty at all. soaked everything in PB blaster over night, also fairly sure the h pipe came out a few months ago when they replaced my transmission. all o2s also had a ton of anti sieze on em that looked fairly recent too. dont think itll take that long. So lower control arm first lol since its a safety hazard. Boot on ball joint is torn and its fully compressed and is the only thing suspension wise that moves when the wheel is shaken side to side.

 

[Captainstr8edge]

nice, Should be fairly straight forward then.

 

[S197gt07]

Too bad taking the A arm out is a bitch because of the freaking steering rack.

God speed!

 

[HellsBells]

Too bad taking the A arm out is a bitch because of the freaking steering rack.

God speed!

Never again!!!

Brian send me some 22lr -- I don't wanna line up on mondays at 6am with everyone else.

 

[S197gt07]

Never again!!!

Brian send me some 22lr -- I don't wanna line up on mondays at 6am with everyone else.

Tell me where to ship it and I'll make it happen.

I can order online to my buddy, then ship it from NH. Lowest price online now is ~.08/round, but dicks says 333 rounds is $18 which is .05/round

 

[HellsBells]

Tell me where to ship it and I'll make it happen.

I can order online to my buddy, then ship it from NH. Lowest price online now is ~.08/round, but dicks says 333 rounds is $18 which is .05/round

Where are you ordering from? I may have found a way to ship stuff to myself. People here are reselling 333 rounds for like $33.

 

[chaoscentral]

Too bad taking the A arm out is a bitch because of the freaking steering rack.

God speed!

Steering rack wasnt an issue, dont need to touch the bolts. You simple turn the wheel the opposite direction you are working on and you can angle the inner tie rod out of the way. That was a piece of cake.

The pain in my ass was getting the ball joint off the steering knuckle... Boot was gone to shit, wasnt enough force to get the pickle fork to pop it out. ended up putting a wrench inbetween the LCA and the pickle fork and tried which got it further, then had to double up and it finally popped out.

If the ball joint wasnt such a PiTA I would have been done in an hour or two, everything else was easy lol.

Sadly because of that snafu and helping my friend put a power steering pump in his GTP I didnt get to put on the o/r h or blower, but that'll get done this week, plenty of time.

 

[Captainstr8edge]

awww! I was hoping you got to it!

 

[S197gt07]

Where are you ordering from? I may have found a way to ship stuff to myself. People here are reselling 333 rounds for like $33.

I find prices on ammoseek.com

The $18 is from dicks, I could stop by today and see what they have in stock and what prices are?

 

[Captainstr8edge]

Brian, do you have hood struts on your car? I want to get some and figured you might have them to sell.

 

[S197gt07]

Lol.

I bought some MRT's like 2 years ago, and they didn't fit right.

After dealing with their terrible customer service, I returned them and ate a 20% restocking fee.

The fucking things wouldn't line up with the 4 holes on the hood...

 

[Captainstr8edge]

well now I know to at least stay away from those ones lol

right now I'm looking at the MMD struts on AM. They are the only ones AM carries it looks like.

 

[S197gt07]

Im sure you'd be fine. 8 million people swear by the MRT ones, I just got dicked.

Just remember to get the correct ones for your hood material!

 

[chaoscentral]

I vote for the roush hood struts, mine work awesome! reuses factory holes/bolts!

BTW o/r H pipe is finally on, last thing to do is put the blower on, but thats the easiest of these 3 jobs lol.

 

[S197gt07]

Anybody have stock mufflers?

Stock shift knob?

 

[HellsBells]

Anybody have stock mufflers?

Stock shift knob?

I has stock knob.

Y U NO TELL ME B4 I PACKED?

 

[Captainstr8edge]

I tossed my mufflers and gave my shift knob away. sorry!

 

[S197gt07]

I has stock knob.

Y U NO TELL ME B4 I PACKED?

I forgot?

Bring it with you in october? Or is it in a box in my bedroom?

 

[Gabe]

I have my stock 5.0 mufflers and the stock shift knob

 

[S197gt07]

I know the mufflers wont work.

Not sure on the shift knob